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  2. Chloridea virescens - Wikipedia

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    C. virescens acquired resistance to DDT a mere 14 years after widespread use, carbaryl within 10 years, pyrethroids in 7, and methomyl in less than 5 years of intensive use. [ 16 ] When insecticides are implemented, foliar insecticides are used, but this often also hurts beneficial organisms that control Chloridea virescens populations, further ...

  3. List of obsolete technology - Wikipedia

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    Obsolete technology Replacement Still used for Bathing machine: No longer required due to changing social standards of morality Hourglass: Clock: Tasks where a fixed amount of time can be measured with a low-tech solution: Exposure time tracker in saunas (where electronics might be damaged by the heat or ultraviolet light); retro kitchen timers, board games, other short-term timers.

  4. Population bottleneck - Wikipedia

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    Population bottleneck followed by recovery or extinction. A population bottleneck or genetic bottleneck is a sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events such as famines, earthquakes, floods, fires, disease, and droughts; or human activities such as genocide, speciocide, widespread violence or intentional culling.

  5. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    Clock time and calendar time have duodecimal or sexagesimal orders of magnitude rather than decimal, e.g., a year is 12 months, and a minute is 60 seconds. The smallest meaningful increment of time is the Planck timeā€•the time light takes to traverse the Planck distance, many decimal orders of magnitude smaller than a second. [1]

  6. Template:Time ago - Wikipedia

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    This template calculates the amount of time which has passed since a provided timestamp. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Timestamp 1 Base timestamp for calculation of passed time. Example format: Nov 6 2008, see template documentation for other supported formats. String required magnitude magnitude Explicitly sets a specific unit to display return ...

  7. Faint young Sun paradox - Wikipedia

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    More recent modeling studies have shown that the Sun is currently 1.4 times as bright today than it was 4.6 billion years ago (Ga), and that the brightening has accelerated considerably. [8] At the surface of the Sun, more fusion power means a higher solar luminosity (via slight increases in temperature and radius), which is termed radiative ...

  8. Double burden - Wikipedia

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    [14] [27] Her net financial gain is less than the financial gain of a man because she has to spend her earnings on providing for these provisions. [14] In addition, increasing paid work hours in order to have more money may have negative effects on the woman due to the increased total work hours and decreased leisure time. [28]

  9. Great Oxidation Event - Wikipedia

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    The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) or Great Oxygenation Event, also called the Oxygen Catastrophe, Oxygen Revolution, Oxygen Crisis or Oxygen Holocaust, [2] was a time interval during the Earth's Paleoproterozoic era when the Earth's atmosphere and shallow seas first experienced a rise in the concentration of free oxygen. [3]